NHS priorities

Whether it’s to prepare for the next Quality Payments Scheme deadline, or to increase your confidence in helping people with a learning disability, this section provides topic-specific pages that link to current NHS priorities. This section will support you in keeping your knowledge and skills up to date in order to provide high-quality pharmacy services and be service-ready.

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Our clinical portfolio is expanding on a frequent basis, helping you to advance your knowledge and skills and deliver medicines optimisation in practice for all sectors of pharmacy. From two new focal points a year to our small group learning for hospital pharmacists – Optimise – this section focuses on clinical pharmacy, diseases and therapeutics.

The public health agenda is embedded in pharmacy, yet topics such as emergency contraception or stop smoking support are as prevalent as ever. As well as our public health workshops, use this section to access a wide range of resources to assure and maintain your competence, all underpinned by the Declaration of Competence system.

Provision of
one specified advanced service
is one of the four gateway criteria for the community pharmacy Quality Payments Scheme. A key role for pharmacists is supporting patients with medicines optimisation via the medicines use review (MUR) service.

As a pharmacist you will need to be accredited to deliver the MUR service by successfully completing an MUR assessment set by a higher education institution (HEI). We host an MUR assessment on behalf of the University of Manchester and have several resources to support you in successfully completing the assessment.

A good starting point is to take a look at our
MUR FAQs
for more information.

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We know that the teenage years can be an exciting and difficult time in a child's life, with special health risks and problems.

That's why we developed the Adolescent Care Clinic, to give teens (between the ages of 10 and 21 years) the specialized, comprehensive care they need.

UK Adolescent Medicine was featured in UK HealthCare's fall 2015
OnCall
magazine. The article highlights Dr. Omar's journey in building the UK Adolescent Medicine program and the impact his work has had on Kentucky's teens and their families.

Our team of physicians, nurses, social workers, nutritionists, and psychologists has expertise in a wide range of adolescent concerns. We treat every patient as a unique person with unique needs - emotional, physical and psychological.

A physician is on call in the evenings and weekends.

Counseling is available for the following:

Gynecological care:
Our gynecological care also counsels teens and encourages them to maintain a healthy lifestyle, avoiding risky behaviors and postponing sexual activity. Some of the services we provide include:

Gynecological care:

Other services:

The teenage years can be fun and exciting, but teens searching for independence may experiment with alcohol, drugs and sex. These behaviors can have long-lasting and serious affects on your child's physical and emotional health including drug addiction, pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs like Chlamydia, AIDS and gonorrhea) or potentially fatal accidents.

It's important to talk honestly to teenagers about the risks. Our counselors are experts at communicating with teens and will work with you and your family to help with any special concerns you might have. We believe that the most important people in a teen's life are his family and we encourage parents to be actively involved in their child's life.

We respect the privacy of your teenager and your family. You can be sure that all discussions and care, especially in respect to STDs, drug use, and birth control, are absolutely confidential. UK Children's Hospital has a very strict privacy policy that insures no one from our team or the hospital will ever reveal information about your family.